Top 5 Best Windows Movie Maker Alternatives for Windows 10

If you are still looking for the Windows Movie Maker for Windows 10, it is in vain, the most popular free video editing tool for Windows was officially discontinued by Microsoft. That means you will no longer have access to it since it is no longer available to download from the official site.

But don't worry, there are some exceptional Windows Movie Maker alternatives available that are also easy to use, powerful, and most importantly, they are completely free too. We have made a list of the best free movie maker for Windows below.

VSDC Free Video Editor is a feature-packed non-linear video editing suite that can compete with even expensive editing software. With VSDC Free Video Editor, you can apply a variety of visual and audio effects to your video to achieve desired results. Besides, this video editor can be used as a video converter which helps you change video format from one to another such as MP4 to WebM or MOV to AVI, etc. VSDC Free Video Editor also provides an option to burn your project file onto DVD, a feature rarely available in free editing software.

OpenShot can be a great alternative to Windows Movie Maker because it is an open-source editor with many powerful features. OpenShot can create videos, photos and music files as you wish. OpenShot allows you to easily add subtitles, transitions, and effects to your videos, then export your videos to many common formats that can be compatible with DVD, YouTube, Vimeo. The difference between OpenShot and other video editors is the easy-to-use user interface.

Shotcut Video Editor is a free and open source video editor that makes movie making straightforward. If you're looking for a free video editor that can replace Windows 10 Movie Maker, Shotcut is a good choice. It contains all the tools you know and love from Microsoft's classic video editing software. In addition, this software has added some new features such as it can handle streaming in HTTP, HLS, RTMP, RTSP, MMS and UDP formats and will be continuously updated.

VideoPad Video Editor is a remarkable free video editor that even makes advanced editing straightforward, it is a brilliant tool for novice videographers to create professional quality videos in minutes. As a solid Windows Movie Maker alternative, you just need to simply load your video clips, images and sound files to VideoPad Video Editor, and then drag them into the timeline to start editing. By the way, for the issue of VPJ to MP4 conversion, we have provided a solution. It is worth mentioning that Videopad can directly share videos on YouTube without YouTube's web publishing tools.

Avidemux is best for making quick edits and cuts for people who never cut and manipulated footage before. Unlike other Windows Movie Maker alternatives, there's no central pool for importing video clips, pictures and audio files, and there's no timeline with multiple tracks. So, it is just for simple edits like cut video clips, copy and delete sections of the video, and append one video clip to another.